The most awaited image of Luciano Perdomo, the captain of the Chacarita: he left therapy and posed with his daughters

Luciano Perdomo came back to life. This Saturday, Chacarita Juniors reported that his captain He left the intensive care unit of the Miter Sanatorium to move to a common roomwhich generated enormous relief for all those who were waiting for the health of the footballer, who had an accident on Monday 22 January, while he was going in his car to his team’s training at the UTA facility in Moreno.

After a painful hospital stay that kept him in intensive care for several days, the 27-year-old footballer finally spent a couple of days without a ventilator as he recovered from a serious head injury resulting from the car accident in San Miguel del Monte. It is expected that he will be discharged and it is not yet known whether he will be able to return to his professional activity.

Friday’s medical report indicated that Luciano was “stable and lucid” and was feeding by tube, having been removed from his artificial respirator on Wednesday. The severity of the case is such that it is not yet known whether he will have to undergo maxillofacial surgery: his face continues to be disfigured by swelling.

This Saturday, after the club had communicated the player’s transfer through its press office “in a general room”maintaining his “hospitalization for observation”his wife shared a photo that touched the whole atmosphere of the promotion.

Luciano is there, smiling and in the company of his two daughters, which suggests that these are hours of great happiness and hope for a family left in suspense for almost two weeks.

“Now yes,” he wrote. Sofiaon a postcard that says it all.

In this context It is impossible to predict his return to football. Chacarita’s medical team has not signaled a possible return to training. “The focus is on another aspect, nothing that has to do with his footballing future is being considered,” club sources admitted.

Perdomo has no problems “from the neck down”, however the complexity is such that he will most likely not be able to return to playing football this year. The most optimistic believe that he can make it by the end of the season. Of all the predictions, no one is a doctor.

“We cannot talk about deadlines for his return to activity, but we estimate that in a few days, I don’t want to talk about deadlines, but he will soon return home,” clarified the doctor at the Chacarita campus. Martino Romagnoli, in dialogue with Clarion.

The doctor also said that the footballer is in good spirits and optimistic. However, once discharged, you will have to undergo studies and evaluations by different specialists to treat the injuries that have remained in the background due to the initial severity of your situation.

«He will go to the general room. The evolution is very good, he is now conscious and lucid without respiratory assistance. He has several fractures in the bones of his face, one in the septum which will be resolved by an otolaryngologist, but it is not urgent: he can wait for him to be discharged at a later time”, explained Romagnoli.

Who is Luciano Perdomo

Known as Puchi, the footballer was born 27 years ago in La Matanza and trained in the lower divisions of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata. From there he went on loan to Aldosivi de Mar del Plata and was then loaned to club San Martín, where he joined permanently after being released by Lobo. He had just renewed his contract until the end of 2025.

Since arriving in Chacarita, Perdomo has established himself as one of the pillars of the team that was one of the protagonists of the last season as well as being left without the possibility of obtaining promotion to the Professional League, which in the end was in the hands of Independent Rivadavia de Mendoza and Deportivo Riestra.

Chacarita will debut in the 2024 season on Saturday at 5pm in San Martín, home of Deportivo Maipú. “It’s a difficult moment. It was a knockout blow, but it didn’t change our course. We are standing, waiting for the evolution. He is our captain and we will wait for him,” said coach Anibal Biggeri. of the undertaker.